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Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Enable consistent export - implement MVCC

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about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Dashboard Tabs in TFUI

Common feedback from users is to have the ability to create multiple dashboard tabs. This would help with the layout of dashboards, as a single tab can get very busy
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Keeping the Color Scheme - Dashboard to Explorations

The Dashboards have a color scheme that matches the scheme of the Solution they are embedded into. If you select a visualization, and drill into it, the color scheme is lost. This is problematic if there is a specific RAG, or escalation color sche...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ should favour use of indices for sort when more than one column is specified

Currently (in my testing) any UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ specifying more than one column will not use indices for sort and will instead scan the table, write to temporary files and sort. This is true even when all columns spe...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sort data calculations should not be used to determine number of passes for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statements where an index is used, fix misleading explain output

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH can be used with an explain option. The explain file always shows a sort data calculation which then determines the number of table scans (passes) the database engine will undertake. These are calculated before any de...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Do not allocate MGM memory to UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ if index is used for sort

If an UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ is run, Informix will allocate memory for sorts from the memory grant manager (MGM). This happens regardless of whether there is any sorting to do. If a single indexed column is specified in t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Create QWT API or script to input SQLs and return recommendations reports file

This product working depends on personal act to access DSM or Data Studio to select type of input, set the filter, execute the job analysis and receive recommendations report, so we'd like do that by external input like a job, script or QWT API.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release